An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)

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[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

well you ensured my uselessness this afternoon and I'm about 8 tabs deep on the Côte d'Ivoire

great stuff, thank you

[-] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

If you'd like a deeper dive into this topic then there's a book called The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

[-] tinycarnivoroussheep@possumpat.io 2 points 1 month ago

That makes me think of shit like Karahan Tepe or Poverty Point. How would they organize to build cool shit without a centralized authority? Or maybe it was a centralized authority but it wasn't hierarchical?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Amazing right? So many ways we can (and have) organise ourselves.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

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